Someone else slides into the classroom just before class begins. The teacher rolls his eyes, but doesn't call him tardy. The student doesn't look particularly repentant, just vaguely smug.

Good for him. Elliot doesn't take that sort of risk, hasn't in years, but he doesn't particularly mind other people doing it as long as they don't get him in trouble. 

He wonders vaguely if the kid is going to doodle his way through this class as well as the last one, and also how many classes they have together. But he should probably be paying attention to the teacher now, since class just started. 

The kid is totally going to doodle his way through this class. ... But does actually first do the work that's handed to him, so he's probably not failing.

Elliot gets on with his own work, trying to catch up since his last school had a slightly different curriculum for World History.

He's getting tired of mentally referring to his classmate as 'that kid', so he listens carefully when the teacher takes attendance, hoping to catch his name.

His name's Sebastian, apparently. He has probably heard many jokes about The Little Mermaid, and does not look like he'd appreciate any of them.

He's not very social in this class, either. But something he says does cause one of the students near him to quietly crack up, though Elliot can't actually hear what he says.

That's fine, he needs to concentrate on the work anyway. 

Some of the material is a little confusing without context, but he'll ask Isobel to explain it later. She's good at history, and if she doesn't remember the specific context she'll know where to find it.  

The teacher is patient with Elliot, anyway. He gets a packet that's already partially filled in. He'll have to study it on his own time, but he doesn't have to search through any books for the information everyone's expected to have.

This time, when class ends, Sebastian is nearly the first out of the door. Maybe he doesn't like history.

Elliot does happen to like history, but he knows perfectly well that it's not everyone's favorite. 

Sebastian isn't in his next class; that would've been starting to get creepy. Isobel is, though: they both took Spanish. 

"How's your new friend?" 

"Amazing," Isobel whispers. She's long since stopped questioning the fact that Elliot knows whenever she makes a new friend. 

"She has color-coded notes on everything."

From someone who doesn't normally pass such a definitively positive judgement on people until she's known them at least a day - although a negative one can take as little as a few minutes - this is practically a declaration of undying love. 

Class proceeds! There aren't really any notable doodlers or color coders this time. There is a lot of Spanish, and this seems like a pretty good class for the two of them to catch up. It's pretty laid back, they're not likely to get in trouble for talking.

Eventually, class ends.

Elliot heads off to Biology, and Isobel has Geometry. Yvette is in Geometry, since it's another Honors class.

"Hi, again," she says, a little shy. "Is it OK if I sit with you again?"

Maybe she'd find another friendly person if she sat somewhere else, but really, one new person is enough on a day when she's already having to deal with a new school. 

"Hi! Absolutely," says Yvette, smiling back.

"Oh good." 

Let the Geometry commence! She bets Yvette has color-coded notes for this class too.